Posts Tagged ‘suicide’
Work Bully Victims Struggle with Dangerous Stress
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience, January 12, 2012
If you spend your workday avoiding an abusive boss, tiptoeing around co-workers who talk behind your back, or eating lunch alone because you’ve been ostracized from your cubicle mates, you may be the victim of workplace bullying. New research suggests that you’re not alone, especially if you’re struggling to cope.
Tags: Gary Namie, health harm, PTSD, Stephanie Pappas, stress, suicide, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News, Social Justice | 16 Comments »
A Federal Anti-Bullying Bill Coming
Friday, October 8th, 2010
One of the two U.S. Senators from New Jersey, Frank Lautenberg (D), has promised to act on the Tyler Clementi suicide at Rutgers University. He will introduce a bill in November requiring colleges and universities that receive federal student aid to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment of students, and to have in place a policy to deal with complaints and incidents of harassment. The schools would be required to recognize cyberbullying as a form of harassment. The bill would also provide funding for schools to establish programs to deter harassment of students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students. You can read his announcement. This response will be met with predictable hand wringing by bully apologists and those who denigrate people driven to suicide (Bazelon at Slate, Newsweek, et al.). The truth is that without a push for doing the right thing via threat of litigation, good people die while waiting for voluntary institutional action that never comes.
Tags: Clementi, Lautenberg, Rutgers University, suicide
Posted in Legislative Campaign | 4 Comments »
Empathy, integrity, torture led to Army suicide
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Alyssa Peterson
Sept. 15, 2010 marks the 7th anniversary of Alyssa Peterson’s death in Iraq.
Alyssa Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff Arizona native served in a military intelligence unit of the 101st Airborne in Iraq in 2003. She formally and loudly objected to techniques used against prisoners (which we have all since learned were torture). She was trained in Arabic and interrogation techniques. She was a Mormon who, prior to deployment, reportedly was questioning her faith. Her family and fellow trainees remembered her as extremely empathetic and kind.
Tags: Alyssa Peterson, Army, Greg Mitchell, Kevin Elston, military intelligence, suicide, torture
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice | 1 Comment »
Journalism ethics professor trivializes Univ of Virginia story
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ed Wasserman was a reporter and is now a professor of journalism ethics at Washington & Lee University. He opined in his Aug. 29 newspaper column on the media about the Kevin Morrissey suicide story at the University of Virginia that would not have been a story without the “tilt of coverage toward this hot new social malady” (thanks for the back-handed compliment about awareness about workplace bullying).
Tags: Edward Wasserman, Kevin Morrissey, suicide, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR, Washington & Lee, workplace bullying
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 4 Comments »
Kevin Morrissey suicide update
Friday, August 20th, 2010
The most detailed account of events at the University of Virginia that led up to Kevin Morrissey’s suicide can be found in the Charlottesville newspaper, The Hook:
Tale of Woe: The death of Kevin Morrissey by Dave McNair, August 18, 2010
Take time to read the several comments, including mine.
Tags: Casteen, Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, suicide, Sullivan, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction | 1 Comment »
University suicide points to nonreponsive employer
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Ted Genoways, VQR editor accused of bullying by suicide victim
At universities, people tend to think of teaching and research faculty and staff as the only employees. At the University of Virginia, the president supports a literary journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review, prestigious to poets and fiction writers. Kevin Morrissey, 52, the VQR managing editor had been hired by a young Ted Genoways, 38, new himself to the editor post in 2003.
On July 30, Kevin Morrissey committed suicide after a reported three years of torment by Genoways despite the two having a genuine friendship at the start of their work together.
There was a record of several calls by Morrissey to university institutional helpers (HR, ombuds, EAP, president’s office). Either his call for help was not answered or treated with indifference. Those familiar with Morrissey’s complaints said that the rationalization for Genoways was that creative people like him could be difficult to work with and were often bad managers! In other words, live with him, adjust to him, Genoways is indispensable. Note the abdication of responsibility by this employer for the safe working conditions of its employees.
Tags: Alana Levinson-LaBrosse, bullycide, John Casteen, Kevin Morrissey, suicide, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, workplace bullying
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice | 24 Comments »
Economic Distress Prompts Suicide Call Increase
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The federal government through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, part of HHS) is funding an additional $1 million for 20 suicide prevention crisis centers dealing with significantly more calls from people in economic distress (about 25% of the 57,000 calls in July). The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which routes calls to about 140 crisis centers across the country, is
1-800-273-TALK / 1-800-273-8255
Tags: economic crisis, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, SAMHSA, suicide
Posted in Health Care, Science | 3 Comments »
Guest blog: Another USPS Workplace Tragedy
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
By Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D. author of Beyond Going Postal
On the morning of June 2, 2009, a city letter carrier went to work and reportedly fatally shot himself in the head in the locker room at a postal facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. The Gaston Gazette online news report stated that the “Gastonia Police are investigating an apparent suicide this morning at the post office. . . . One of the employees is inside dead from a gunshot wound.” (more…)
Tags: arbitration, Fields, going postal, Musacco, NALC, suicide, USPS, violence policy, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Health Care, Social Justice | 125 Comments »
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